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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Dirty Harry (1971) - Part (6) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Dirty Harry (1971) - Part (6) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Dirty Harry (1971).
About the movie:
A San Francisco cop with little regard for rules (but who always gets results) tries to track down a serial killer who snipes at random victims.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dirty Harry (1971)?
a.
The film makes quite extensive use of matte paintings for backgrounds. Every segment (except "The Stone Age" and "The Old Testament") features backgrounds that are nothing more than paintings, especially in the segments establishing shots and in numerous wide shots. Such paintings were used for the harbor and for many of the city shots in "The Roman Empire", the castle in "The Spanish Inquisition" and both the city and the countryside in "The French Revolution."
b.
William Faulkner
won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949, the year after "Intruder in the Dust" was published and the same year the film was released.
c.
Vitaphone production reels #3199-3207
d.
This film makes references to the then recent criminal court trials of Escobedo v. Illinois and Miranda v. Arizona. Escobedo v Illinois was a 1964 case which ruled that any statements made by a suspect without the presence of legal counsel were inadmissible as evidence. Miranda v Arizona was a 1966 case which ruled that a suspect had to be informed of his rights prior to interrogation. If he was not informed of his rights, the subsequent interrogation was deemed null and void.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dirty Harry (1971)?
a.
Legendary stuntman
Dar Robinson
was killed in a motorcycle accident shortly after principal photography was finished. Director
Richard Donner
dedicated the film to him.
b.
Scorpio wears a belt with a peace symbol buckle throughout the film. According to director
Don Siegel
, "It reminds us that no matter how vicious a person is, when he looks in the mirror he is still blind to what he truly is".
c.
Leonette Scott
(Flashback Girl), spoofs her own character (Tisha) in
Boyz n the Hood
.
d.
Chris Klein
auditioned for the role of John Connor.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dirty Harry (1971)?
a.
The shooting schedule for this film was two days and one night.
b.
The 10 sound discs for the film and trailer survive in the UCLA Film and Television Archives.
c.
The car that
Jack Benny
drives in his cameo is a Maxwell, the same defunct brand of automobile as his famous jalopy on his radio show.
d.
First feature film portraying the San Francisco Police Departments Bureau of Inspectors Homicide Detail; the success of the film led to the development of the TV drama
The Streets of San Francisco
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dirty Harry (1971)?
a.
Nicolas Cage
turned down the part of Neo because of family commitments. Other actors considered for the role included
Tom Cruise
and
Leonardo DiCaprio
.
b.
The role of Suzette was intended for
Pauline Frederick
but she was forced to pull out due to illness.
c.
All of the blanks for Harrys gun had to be made especially for the film, as the standard 5-in-1 blanks used in most films do not fit a .44 chamber.
d.
Some sequences were shot in Cornwall, England. A small woods called Golitha Falls was used in one sequence when the musketeers are being pursued by guards. The small harbour village of Charlestown is home to the galleon that was used in a night-shoot.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dirty Harry (1971)?
a.
Both
Arnold Schwarzenegger
and
Robert Urich
cite the character of Harry Callahan as being one of the biggest influences on their careers. Schwarzenegger said that watching Dirty Harry inspired him to seek out action roles with wisecracking heroes who were a law unto themselves. Urich based his portrayal of Dan Tanna in the TV show
Vega$
on
Clint Eastwood
s performance in Dirty Harry, especially his tendency never to get angry or raise his voice. According to Urich, when shooting the pilot, he was very consciously doing an impression of Eastwood.
b.
Paul Matthews
, the original voice of Mighty One-Eye, was a delivery person that Richard Williams overheard in an elevator on the way to a rehearsal space. He hired him for his deep, dark voice despite no prior acting experience.
c.
James Bond screenwriters
Neal Purvis
and
Robert Wade
wrote the first draft of the screenplay, a fairly faithful translation of the original with a prologue set in World War II in which Charlie Crokers father tries and fails to recover the gold (tying the film in with
Troy Kennedy-Martin
s other heist film
Kellys Heroes
). A new story was commissioned from writing team the Powers that relocated the action to L.A. Early posters and the trailer still credited Purvis and Wade as co-writers.
d.
After discovering the comet, one of the astronomers is killed in a car accident. This mirrors the real life car accident death (July 18 1997, in outback Australia) of astronomer
Eugene Shoemaker
, who helped discover the Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dirty Harry (1971)?
a.
Near the end of the picture, when the Reverend Whirley is being taken away on the airport runway, Joe Friday sees his true love standing there beaming on the tarmac. For a brief moment an old, four piston engine aircraft is in the background behind the actress. This aircraft is a Lockheed Constellation, which is affectionately known as a "Connie", the same first name as the Virgin Connie Swail.
b.
As a tribute to
Howard Hughes
, who inspired Iron Man, production was mainly based in the former Hughes Company soundstages in Playa Vista. The scene where the Iron Man Mark III armor was created was filmed in the area where Hughes assembled the H-4 Hercules airplane (better known as "The Spruce Goose").
c.
Body Count: 51.
d.
The gun Scorpio steals from the liquor store owner is a 9mm Walther P38. During his rooftop shootout, he uses a German MP40 sub-machine gun. The sniper rifle he uses is a 7.7mm Japanese Arisaka Type 02 Paratrooper Takedown rifle (rechambered in .30-06 Springfield) fitted with a suppressor. This particular rifle was sporterized; all of the Scorpio Killers weapons were WWII-era infantry weapons.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dirty Harry (1971)?
a.
The clock in the clock tower started running at 8:00 p.m. on September 5, 1885. The date is provided by the caption on the photograph Doc gives Marty at the end of the movie. The lightning strikes the clock tower at 10:04 p.m. on November 12, 1955. This means that the clock tower operated for exactly 70 years, 2 months, 7 days, 2 hours, and 4 minutes.
b.
Zac Efron
injured his wrist whilst filming the spinning corridor scene featured in the song Scream.
c.
When composer
Lalo Schifrin
was scoring the film, he told director
Don Siegel
that he wanted to use female vocals for the scenes with the Scorpio killer in them. When Siegel asked him why, Schifrin replied that he believed Scorpio was conflicted about what he was doing as he wore a peace symbol belt buckle yet he was a murderer. Schifrin believed that Scorpio heard voices in his head and the female vocals would represent that. (This particular score was later sampled by rap group N.W.A in 1991 for the rap song Approach to Danger.)
d.
When the film premiered at the Radio City Music Hall there was then the largest line to get in, in that theaters history. After the films initial success,
Arthur Freed
, the producer of this film, recalled that his unit was in the MGM commissary passing the
Joe Pasternak
unit (which made less expensive musicals), the Pasternak unit said, "There goes the royal family." Indeed, this picture was at the time the second largest-grossing in MGM history, next to
Meet Me in St. Louis
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dirty Harry (1971)?
a.
Shot in six days.
b.
The first of five movies starring
Clint Eastwood
as Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan.
c.
The main characters name is Joseph, and he invents a "process." In Kafkas "Der Prozess" (English title: The Trial), the main character, Joseph, is also framed, and nothing is what it seems.
d.
This wasnt the first
Mel Brooks
Robin Hood parody. His previous attempt was the short-lived TV series
When Things Were Rotten
.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dirty Harry (1971)?
a.
The original actress that was supposed to play the bartender did not show up for the 3 am call and could not be reached so an extra was quickly cast in the role instead.
b.
Harry drives a 1968 Ford Galaxie 500.
c.
Cameron Crowe
:
Tom Cruise
s director from
Jerry Maguire
and
Vanilla Sky
appears as a commuter on the train who looks at Anderton over the top of his newspaper and recognizes him.
d.
In the play, Princess Elizabeth is always off-stage. Here she is always present.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dirty Harry (1971)?
a.
The Goal was originally scheduled for 16 days shooting over 4 long weekends, however a snow storm was coming in and the crew had to move the last day of shooting, which was to be outside on a Sunday, to our light Friday. It caused the crew to shoot seven locations in one day, coming in ahead of schedule and under budget.
b.
In a 2009 poll for MTV News, the character of Harry Callahan was voted the "Greatest Movie Badass of All-Time." Dirty Harry beat other movie icons like Rambo, Ellen Ripley and John McClane to the top spot.
c.
Patti Page relates in her new book that she had tested for the title role of Helen Morgan wearing a dark wig before they cast Ann Blyth.
d.
Aldwych station was chosen to film the underground scenes because the true Tottenham Court Road station had been modified extensively in the early 1980s. Only Edgware Road still has any resemblance to its original look.
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